I actually just finished Hanya Yanagihara's debut novel, The People in the Trees, and it was unbelievably soul-destroying. I find myself staring at nothing and having my eyes well up. A Little Life is next on the list and I am excited and scared to read it.

Reactive. Reactionary means something very different, something specifically about reaction to political movements. You use the words interchangeably both in the header and the body of the article when they are anything but.